How many of you have ever fired a grease gun?

[kentauros]

I'll think up more...

[In_The_Wind]

1. I usually hire someone to lube things.

[kentauros]

3. Less mess that way

[NNadir]

2. I've done it; I've also fired caulk guns and squirt guns.

I'm not interested in firing guns that kill people though.

[kentauros]

4. The only things we 'kill' in the Lounge

is food & drink

[Major Nikon]

5. ...

[Major Nikon]

6. Pull my finger

[Doc_Technical]

7. Google "m3 grease gun"

and the answer is no.

[kentauros]

8. No thanks.

But you can see what I meant with this Google Search

[Aristus]

9. All the time as a tanker in the Army.

Those bastards were hell to load; messy and time-consuming.

Speaking of 'grease guns', which were alluded to above, our arms room did stock these old fossils:



They used to be standard issue to tankers back in the 40's, 50's and 60's. Don't know why we still had them. They were never signed out or used the entire time I was there.

[kentauros]

11. I seem to recall some manufacturer

making a real grease gun to look like those real guns...

[malthaussen]

17. When I first started in ROTC...

... our armory was still stocking Springfield '03 rifles, which we used for infantry training for the first couple of months until they gave us some M-16s. The weapon was 70 years out of date by then.

-- Mal

[csziggy]

10. I used to have to grease the universal on my bush hog once a month

More often in the middle of the summer mowing season. So, yeah, I've fired a grease gun a LOT.

Haven't done it in fifteen years - blew out my left knee with the stiff clutch on the tractor and was not allowed to drive it anymore.

[kentauros]

12. Owwwww

Yeah, now it's time to hire someone while you watch and relax, uh, I mean, supervise

[csziggy]

13. It didn't hurt so much the day I wore through the meniscus

It was a week later when I folded the torn part over that got really, really bad.

After I got both knees replaced (I wore through the other meniscus six years later) I wanted to start mowing again. The tractor needed work and they are supposed to make the clutch less stiff. Problem is getting parts for a 36 year old Massey Ferguson. They've had it for a year and a half and still haven't been able to get it going.

Oh well, I'm getting too old to drive a tractor anyway. But it was the best way to keep track of everything in the pastures - and no one else keeps up with it the way I used to.

[OriginalGeek]

14. i actually have done that

helping pack bearings and such.

I'm not tryna act like I'm a real mechanic or something - it was more of a "here, hold this, now squeeze that..." sort of thing. I wish I were more mechanically inclined. I should have paid more attention when the opportunities to learn presented themselves. No point in it now, I'll never know more than the guy who works on my cars and I doubt I can afford the tools lol. He has the tools and has proven time and again to be honest and fair and super-knowledgeable.

[Kaleva]

15. Getting your ass greased used to be a ritual in the Navy

Most of the time it involved a can of grease, a paint brush and some coffee grounds. If the newbie wasn't liked, he got the business end of a grease gun inserted into his ass and he was pumped up.

[rurallib]

16. even had the home version